PAGE FOUR Editorial Opinion Greeks Gain Support The fraternity system, facing a glaring need for expansion, found last night that it has the University behind it. President Eric A. Walker told the Interfraternity Council that the University realizes the need for expand ing the system, and will study the possibilities of provid ing fraternities with land and money at a lower rate of interest for expansion. Walker pledged "everything pos sible" in cooperation with the fraternity system's needs. The status of fraternities with the University is a perennial question: although fraternity men have no major complaints, they frequently speculate on how secure their position is. But Walker's mesage should ease some fears on the support fraternities can expect. The President discussed at length many of the Greeks' problems, and stressed the importance of fraternities to the University both aca demically and socially. Fraternities are presently in a bad spot—this is hard to deny. With the wave of expansion that has hit the University, fraternities may become helpless to hold their own in the face of soaring enrollments. For if fraternities cannot expand with the University, they will gradually become more and more of a minority; this will serve both to diminish their prestige and influ ence and ultimately make it difficult for them to interest enough students to keep the houses themselves alive. But the cooperation of the University could go far towards solving the fraternities' problems. If the Uni versity will provide attractive offers for expansion, the Greeks may be able to interest new fraternities in starting chapters and present ones into expanding their facilities. There are many complex problems involved in a plan for providing a lower interest rate on land and money such as Walker proposed; but if the University does come up with a plan, fraternities must in the inter ests of self-preservation be ready to take advantage of it. Too Little Too Late? Live, in stereophonic sound and natural color. That was the Philadelphia Orchestra's performance Saturday night. Covering four distinctly different musical periods, the orchestra performed with a skill and brilliance that could interpret in music almost every human emotion. It was without doubt one of the finest performances of the Artist Series. But as perfect as was the performance of the Phila delphia Orchestra, it nevertheless revealed familiar im perfections in the University's facilities. One, of course, is the lask of good acoustics in Recrea tion Hall. • The other is the lack of adequate seating capacity in Recreation Hall. . A new auditorium is tentatively slated for construc tion between 1966 and 1970. Its capacity has not been fixed. Construction between 1956 and 1970 is far too late. It is to be hoped that capacity will not be too little. Fifty-four Years of Student Editorial Freedom Offr Batty Totirglatt Successor to The Free Lance, est. 1887 Published Tuesday through Saturday morning during the University year. The Dolly Collegian le a student-operated newspaper. Entered ea second-clate matter July 9. 1939 at the State College. Pa. Post Office under the act of March 3. (879. Mall Subscription Prim $3.00 per semester $5,90 pet year. ROBERT FRANKLIN ROBERT PICCONE Editor - 0 , ' 1 Business Manager City Editor, David Fineman: Managing Editor, Richard Dra'net Sports Editor, Lou Primo: Associate Sports Editor, Matt Mathews; Personnel and Public Relations Director. Patricia Evans: Copy Editor, Lynn Wardt Assistant Copy Editor. Dick Etcher: Photography Editor, Robert Thompson. Credit Mir- Janice Smith: Loral Ad Mar.. Torn Burke,; Asst. Local Ad Mgr.. George Mcrurk; National Ad Mgr., Betsy Brackbill; Promotion Mgr., Kitty Bur. tea: Personnel Mgr., Mickey Nash; Classified Ad Mgr.. Rae Waters: Co. Circulation Mire.. Mary Anne First and Murray Simon; Research and Reeorde Mary Llortitin; Office Secretary. Myta Johnson. THE DAILY COLLEGIAN STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA Letters Tax Plus Fees Equals Squeeze TO THE EDITOR: We have found out what it feels like to be an orange in a juicer, being squeezed from both sides for all it can release. As University students from out of state living in town, we are truly squeezed from both sides, being put into completely opposite categories by the bor ough and the University, ac cording to how they can get most from us. Although we rent an apart ment all year in town, the Uni versity rules we cannot be resi dents, so we must pay more than double the tuition that state residents pay. However, the borough spots a chance for more revenue, so they can claim us as residents and lower the tax boom. It is to be expected that as a state school, the University should charge extra fees for stu dents who are out-of-state resi dents. It is also to be expected that the borough should tax the residents of State College, who happen to be the residents of Pennsylvania as well, according to most maps. It is not to be expected that the same people bo considered citizens by one and aliens by the other, whichever appears to be more lucrative. Such a situation seems more than a little unjust. We feel that two such supposedly good neighbors as the University and State College could be a little more in agreement concerning who lives here and who doesn't. Mr. and Mrs. Harold Stasch, '6O Reader Hits Action Against Jazz Club TO THE EDITOR: As a mem ber of the University and the Jazz Club, I am one who is op posed to the inexplicable action taken against the club by Dr. Gazette Agriculture Student Council, 7 p.m , 212 HUB Air Force Cleo Club, 4 P.m, HUB a;. sombly hail. Alpha Kappa Pal. business meeting, 7:15 p.m., Speaker at g p.m., Theta Delta Chi Angel Flight Drill, 6:30 p.m., Armory Career Day Service Committee, 6:30 p m . 218 HUB Christian Fe/lowship, 12 WI p.m., 218 HUB Commuting Women, 12:30 p.m., 41 Me- Elwain Daily Collegian Business Staff Candi dates, initial meeting, 7 p.m., 131 Temporary Daily Collegian Promotion Staff, 6:16 p.m., 216 Willard Delta Sigma Pl, rushing smoker, 7:60 p.m., Chi Phi Education Student Council, 6:30 P tn., 216 HUB Freshman Council, 6:30 p.m., 217 BUB Freshman Regulation Board, 12;30 p.m., 212 HUB Intercollegiate Conference ment, 7:20 p m., 292 111111 Judicial, 6 p.m., 217 RUB Liberal Arts Student Council. :30 Pau 21t HUB . . Mortar Board Lecture Settee. 7 Pm.. HUB assembly ball Neu Bavriochen Sehuhplattlen, 7 p.m., 2 White Newman Club. 7:45 p.m.. Student Cen. ter, "Mixed-Marriage Inatructiona" Panhellenic Council, 0:30 p m., 203 Wit- lard Petroleum Engineering Society, 7:30 p.m.. Mineral Science auditorium; "Underground Storage for the Gas Utility" Plant Science Club, 7:30 p.m., 108 Tyson Science Fiction Society, 8 p.m, 217 HUB Science Institute for Teachers, 4:15 p.m.. 112 Buckhout Sophomore Class Advisory Board, 8 p.m., 216 HUB University Christian Association Social Commission. 7 p.m., Chapel library Young Republicans, 7:30 p.m., 218 HUB Donna Berman, Sandra Binder, Su zanne Carpenters, William Ehrhart, Jef fery Foster. Richard Gibboney, Janet Goodman. John Hassell, David Hlai Kenneth Hutchinson, Barry Jacobs, James Mason, William Mendioino, Jamaz O'Neill. Club Patsy, Joseph Rapine, Barbara Sherman, Hpdegrove, Heracho Veldinuez, Patricia Watson. Job Interviews MIMI Xm-ox. Inc.: BS & GRADS: ENG SCI, CHEM, CH E, PHYS. Junior -4 & Seniors: ME, EE, CH E, PHYS for sum mer employment Pennsylvania Transformer Division: BS & GRADS: EE. The Ohio Oil Co.: BS & GRADS: PNG, ENG. _ Spencer Kellottg & Som. Inc.: BS: ACCTG, CH E. CHEM. Charle4 Myer & Co.: RS: CH E. CHEM. BACT. FEMALE only). GRADS: CH E. CHEM. Continental Oil Co.: 13S: PNG, ENC. Jun. ion: PNG for summer employment, Pomeroy's& BS, LA.• BUS ADM. PSYpi ED. TODAY en Govern. UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MARCH 13 (Robert G.) Bernreuter and the W ashington administration. It appears to me that $lBOO in a treasury does not constitute an insolvent organization. This previous statement was essen tially the core of Dr. Bern reuter's argument for the abo lition of the Jazz Club. On the basis of such an argument, I find it difficult to substantiate the unjust action taken by the administration. It has been (said) in the dis agreement, the club's history does show a shaky financial con dition, but what is past is past! This condition does not exist at the present time. The Jazz Club has proven itself solvent due to its two recent, successful con certs, The success of the club may be measured by the crowd which filled Recreation Building to see and hear the Four Fresh men. In my estimation, any organ ization which has done what the Jazz Club has done for the morale and entertainment of University students, as well as residents of the surrounding area, deserves all the support of the administration, rather than the unjust, undemocratic action levied against such a fine organization. —Murray Itzenson, '62 EDITOR'S NOTE: Dr. Bernreu ler has not advocated abolition of the Jazz Club. He has ruled that it may hold no more large concerts until the Fall of 1960, which action Jazz Club officers have claimed would virtually abolish the organization. She Prefers Spirit Of '76 to Boucke TO THE EDITOR: In answer to Robert Schimmel's letter which appeared in this column Feb. 19, I would like to submit a few comments. Mr. Schimmel seems to feel that liberal thinking does not contribute towards the advance ment of civilization by teaching an "almost dead philosophy." Is the philosophy of free-think ing really dead or is it only Mr. Schimmel's apparently barren intellect which refuses to recog nize it as a shaping force in our lives? Our destinies will never be determined by the Boucke Boys, Mr. Schimmel. Our destinies were partially determined quite a while ago around 1776 when men with liberal minds and lib eral thoughts dared rebel against a tyranny which was very much akin to Schimmel's nar row thinking. Because of these men and the liberties they assured us, each one of us, be he lawyer, businessman or laborer, has the opportunity to mold his own life. You needn't feel so indis pensible, then. The world would not suddenly come to an end were Boucke Building to blow One of America's earliest and most successful businessmen, Ben Franklin, was an advocate of liberal thought. —Gwen Spiese, '6O Little Man an Campus by Dick Sibiu ''TIME to CLEAN tif , 61a5 - REM FOR EtigßylNlN6 AN' EVERYTNIN6 IN •--- . e .. V( CATCH TH ' G PILLAR OF PEI' F, TU vC- HAgAV ' i I rI i t -C-------1" , ior •---, ... 4 r( ( ,, it • e) - _ . 3;> --- ~. 4 (-) 3.f...e,..,q,.4 TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1959 U.S. Once Had Budget Surplus By ARTHUR EDSON WASHINGTON (Al—Chester A. Arthur and Grover Cleve land faced presidential prob lems that were unique, and al most comical, by today's stan dards. Every president, from Wash ington to Eisenhower, has fret ted over the unbalanced budget. But Arthur and Cleveland found theirs out of kilt e r because tax money poured in too fast-- and there was no way to shut it off. This was before the days of income tax, and most of the na tion's expense money came from customs duties. But hardly any one wanted the tariffs cut. Arthur glumly looked at the rosy fiscal picture. "Swollen revenues," he said, lead to ex travagant spending, "the bane of an overflowing treasury." Rex sees Jane and Tom. Rex runs to Jane aria Tom. GREAT! GREAT! DON'S STOP NOW! HOW DO YOU LIKE IT 50 , FAR? I GLAD YOU LIKE IT.. LATER ON TUE SUSPENSE BEGNES ALMOST UNBEARABLE! ILL eN':'; izo===
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